Texas is a neutral site, so really only 3 road games. Vandy’s road state is absolutely brutal. Slaw’s isn’t much better.
I take it back. Those are indeed worse. Those are brutal! That would be equivalent to a team in the Big 10 playing @Ohio State , @ Penn St, @ Michigan, @ Oregon . Or something along those lines. I wonder if they have a single team next year with a schedule like that.
their teams are still only 3 game schedules max Michigan = at Oklahoma, at USC, v Ohio St Penn State = v Oregon, at Ohio State USC = at Notre Dame, at Oregon, v Michigan Oregon = at Penn State, v USC Ohio State = v Texas, v Penn State, at Michigan its the conference slate, not the non-con, the 3 loss SEC teams should be complaining about. But no one forced us to bring in Texas/Oklahoma. Its why Clemson wanting to leave the ACC makes zero sense for them, they'd be 8-4 in a good year in a P2 league.
The whole SEC OOC stuff is really dumb. That was just DBL being DBL. And I think the Alabama AD brought it up too, which was dumb. We should continue to schedule marquee OOC games. I don't think we really can/should/will complain about our own in conference schedule. We've always known it was tough and we enjoy it . League play is awesome and special. The real complaint is the B10 shouldn't be a 4 bid league with that soft ass in conference schedule. Then if you add the BS OOC's they scheduled, it's even a bigger crock of shit
So the B1G got 4 teams in, and the SEC got the same number as the lowly ACC? Georgia, Texas, Tennessee Clemson, SMU, Notre Dame
LSU, Florida, Georgia were the only teams that tried in their non-conference scheduling. And that’s only because the latter 2 have forced in-state rivalries and UCF wasn’t P4 at the time the game with UF was scheduled.
SEC teams don’t schedule marquee ooc games then those opponents will just get easier matchups and better records at the end of the year
Yep. And Georgia was not "forced" to schedule non-instate Clemson. Also cant wait for the opposite discourse on Georgia next year because UCLA cancelled on us.
I was applauding Georgia but adding that both schools have built in P4 games that they have to play. South Carolina does too and has played another ACC team like UNC but didn’t this season.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/20...gon-Penn State Big,on the network this season. the B1G championship game got stomped by the SEC's again. Poor attendance, Underwhelming TV ratings. At some point these money thirsty commissioners are not going to want the Indiana/SMU types when Penn State and Oregon need bigger brands to prop up their ratings.
The SEC accounted for eight of the 10 most-watched schools during the 2024 regular season, according to Nielsen viewership data released Wednesday. Georgia, at 8.6 million average viewers per game, was No. 1 by a considerable margin over the second-highest school, Ohio State (6.8 million). The Bulldogs played in two of the three-most watched games of the season, against Alabama (12 million) on Sept. 28 and Texas (13.2 million) on Oct. 19, which both aired on ABC. The Nov. 30 Michigan-Ohio State game on Fox (12.3 million) was the other. Rounding out the top five were Alabama (6.6 million), Texas (6.4 million) and Tennessee (5.4 million). They were followed by No. 6 Michigan (5.2 million), No. 7 Texas A&M (4.9 million), No. 8 LSU (4.8 million), No. 9 Kentucky (4.5 million) and No. 10 Florida (4.3 million). The SEC’s depth propelled it to the top spot overall, but the leagues distanced themselves from their competitors when it came to television ratings. Of the top-10 most-watched games of the regular season, the SEC occupied Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 7 while the Big Ten held the Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 8 spots. Early-season crossover games between the leagues (Texas-Michigan, USC-LSU), ranked ninth and 10th. The numbers do not include conference championship games. The data encompassed all games across ABC and the ESPN networks, Fox’s networks, NBC, CBS and the CW. No conference networks were included, as some are not Nielsen rated. Kentucky’s average may have been inflated because its four ABC games were the only times it appeared on a Nielsen-rated network.
What's the worse that could happen, you go undefeated and the committee blasts you for scheduling an FCS team to replace UCLA who bailed on you and get left out completely? No, that could only happen to Auburn
This is mostly dumb especially when schedules are made so far in advanced. Can you blame Bama for announcing playing Wisc in 2019 after they went 13-1, 8-5, 10-5? How'd they know they'd suck and be 5-7? Why the fuck do you give LSU credit b/c they played a shitty 6-6 USC team? LSU "tried" but Auburn didn't b/c they also played a 6-6 Cal team? There are a few teams that regularly schedule 4 G5 team teams. Can shake your fists at them
We'll have 10 P5 games in each of the next 7 seasons. 2025 -- VT 2026-27 -- Miami 2028-29 -- UNC 2030-31 -- NC State
Key word was tried. I’m giving points for the number of P4/5 trans scheduled. Not docking because Wisconsin was bad. There’s no credit for 3 auto wins. LSU played USC and UCLA this season.
Florida used to be very content just playing 3 terrible teams and FSU in nonconference. Made for very boring football.
This is where we are (for now at least). 2025: @ FSU, vs Wisconsin 2026: vs FSU, @ WVU 2027: vs WVU, @ Ohio St 2028: vs Ohio St, @ Ok St 2029: vs Ok St, @ Notre Dame 2030: vs Notre Dame, @ Georgia Tech Gets a bit murkier after that, but I know we’ve got home and homes with Minnesota, Arizona, and a few others which don’t really move the needle scheduled. I’m sure most of these will get canceled anyway because we as fans will inevitably get the short end of the stick with whatever CFP changes are coming down the pipe.
OOC scheduling got really fucked up by expansion. We lost home-and-homes with USC and BYU over the next four years.
Kirby jumped the shark with some of ours. Have FSU, Louisville, Ga Tech one year. Ohio State, Clemson, Ga Tech another. Then other years with nothing but Ga Tech. Its a mess. And the solution is just to quit scheduling the way it always had been, but CFB bureaucracy is worse than the soviets.
Thought you were saying other teams were not scheduling marquee opponents ooc. Misread. Texas tries to always have a marquee matchup, one Texas school and two G5 schools. The SEC move messed that up last year with Georgia dropping off the schedule.
My overall preference would be to end FCS games but I understand that there are state pressures and with good reason to play an instate FCS school. Two P4 and two G5 would be ideal.
I'd love to see the P4 get together and all decide to go 9 games then have 3 games against the others in some kind of bi-annual set determination of match ups
Texas does not play FCS schools. The Texas school is g5 as well just that there is always one from the state so it gets called out. I understand state pressures and those games help fund the fcs program so there are benefits just not to the fans and sos.
2025 schedule is a much needed break from 2024 August 30 = Marshall Sept 6 = Austin Peay Sept 13 = at Tennessee Sept 20 = Bye Sept 27 = Alabama Oct 4 = Kentucky Oct 11 = at Auburn Oct 18 = Ole Miss Oct 25 = Bye Nov 1 = at Florida Nov 8 = Miss State Nov 15 = Texas Nov 22 = Charlotte Nov 28 = at GaTech Spoiler we will be going 9-3 at best with Bobo back
Alabama's 2025 schedule is set. 8/30 - at Florida State 9/6 - ULM 9/13 - Wisconsin 9/20 - BYE 9/27 - at Georgia 10/4 - Vanderbilt 10/11 - at Missouri 10/18 - Tennessee 10/25 - at South Carolina 11/1 - BYE 11/8 - LSU 11/15 - Oklahoma 11/22 - Eastern Illinois 11/29 - at Auburn
Yea, but we have something like 4-5 team with byes before us, so not exactly smooth sailing down here either.
2025 Texas Football Schedule: 8/30 - @ Ohio State 9/6 - vs. San Jose State 9/13 - vs UTEP 9/20 - IDLE 9/27 - vs. Sam Houston State 10/4 - @ Florida 10/11 - vs. Oklahoma (in Dallas) 10/18 - @ Kentucky 10/25 - @ Mississippi State 11/1 - vs. Vanderbilt 11/8 - IDLE 11/15 - @ Georgia 11/22 - vs. Arkansas 11/29 - vs. Texas A&M
Alabama @ Florida State Texas @ Ohio State Auburn @ Baylor Tennessee vs Syracuse LSU @ Clemson South Carolina vs Virginia Tech Oklahoma vs Michigan Mississippi State vs Arizona State Missouri vs Kansas Alabama vs Wisconsin Vanderbilt @ Virginia Tech Texas A&M @ Notre Dame Florida @ Miami Arkansas vs Notre Dame Florida vs Florida State South Carolina vs Clemson Georgia @ Georgia Tech Kentucky @ Louisville We should probably, I dunno, try win all of those games IMHO IYAM